Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1915 — WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD.

Wheatfield Review. Guy Barnard, of Fowler, was a justness visitor here Friday. / Paul Grube went Saturday to Kancakee for a visit with relatives. Mr, and Mrs. George Heil,*of Gifford, were in town trading Saturday. Mrs. James Anderson and Mrs. Wm. Grube, Jr., were Winamac visitors last Thursday. The young girls in town are beating the boys going swimming in the Smith ditch these days. Noah Stonebraker went Friday to Hammond and Chicago Heights for a visit with relatives. The ball game advertised for here last Sunday was called off on account of threatening showers. Jacob Melser, of South Bend, was here last Tuesday and Wednesday visiting his father. Mr. and Mrs. Walter McConnell, of Fair Oaks, autoed here Friday and visited at the home of his sister, Mrs. M. B. Fyfe and family. June Jessup, who is taking a course of study at the Valparaiso University,visited here Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Morgan L. Sterrett and son visited here with Mr. and Mrs. John Williams and family over Tuesday evening. Clyde Williams, of Tipton, lnd., came last Friday for a visit, at the home of his uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman. The big circus trains of Ringling Bros, passed through Sunday enroute to Kankakee and drew the usual number at the depot here to see the show on the train. A. N. Demarah has traded his Urbana, lnd., property for the Taylor 320 acre farm near the Patton school house in Kankakee township. He expects to take possession and move here in the fall. While Ward Hamilton was at Rensselaer last Saturday he found a buyer for his Ford, and in order to get home without walking Ward just went and bought another new car and it’s a Ford. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Austin went Friday evening to Motnence, 111., to attend the funeral of his brother, Marion, who died after several months’ suffering with a cancer on the neck. Zulu Hight returned home Sunday from a two weeks’ visit with relatives at Streator. She was accompanied by her grandmother, who came for a visit at the home of her son, E. R. Hight and family. Nettie Ferguson celebrated her thirteenth birthday by receiving several nice presents, eating a lot of sweet things at the birthday dinner, getting the toothache and having a tooth pulled, all on Friday, July 16th. Harmon Melser, of Corydon, lowa, who sustained a broken leg in an auto accident July 3, was taken on a cot via train to his home Wednesday evening. Since the accident he has been at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fendig. Miss Lila Delehanty returned home Sunday from a visit with her sister, Margaret, and also with friends at Ottawa. Miss Slingsby, of Ottawa, came with Lila for a visit at the Delehanty home. The land known as the Luse ranch east of here in Kankakee township has been divided by mutual agreement between the two heirs, George Luse, of Chicago, and Mrs. Edwin Luse, of Crawfordsville. George gets the 160 acres on the south and Mrs. Luse gets the 227 acres north of the New York Central railroad. Eramus T. Carson, field examiner for the Indiana Board of Accounts, was placed under police charge when his actions indicated he had become insane. He is said to have remarked some time ago that his work with the board would drive him insane. Carson is the second examiner to go insane in the past year. It is no wonder they lose their mind from the number of new forms and plans they get up and the many new rules and unreasonable methods they put in force and advise in the keeping of records in local communications. The plain business plan of allowing a township trustee or town officer or school board to keep his books in the good oldfashioned way has been done away with. The many new forms and systems of booking accounts of public officers is enough to make them crazy. Some of the practical jokers amused themselves here last Friday evening by tairing- a stone jug in the grocery stores and asking for vinegar, the jug having already been loaded with a package of soda. The first was at Remley’s and when Harry tried to fill the jug he had more fizz than you ever seen at a couple of good sized Soda fountains. Harry then furnished the soda and the jug was taken down to Jensen’s store and Tom dragged the bobber under. Tom donated another package of soda and the jug was taken to the Myers* cash store and Hermie said how much and the customer said fill ’er up and when she commenced to foam he tried to hold the fizz in the jug with his hand but he couldn’t and had to run out the back door with the jug and the fizz going in directions. Then the jokers lost ont when they went to Hoehn’s. George was out of vinegar and Lou Pinter was wise.